After experimenting a lot, I finally found a solution. And your working theory is spot on!

In my case, the culprit was an old version of Skip Metro Suite. After uninstalling this software, everything worked perfectly fine. And even better, the newest version 3.0 of Skip Metro Suite didn't cause any problems.

Strangely I just logged in to say I'd done precisely that, though I'd not gone to the trouble of putting a new version on (I have installed Start8 which is pretty damn good and it does that job for me). What are the odds?

I bought a refurbished lenovo u410 with windows 8 back in september, but in the past week every time it goes into sleep or hibernation mode I get a BSOD with Driver_Power_State_Failure. Any help in identifying the problem would be greatly appreciated!

I have purchased a brand-new desktop with Windows 8. After setting up and playing around with Power Options, I had set my computer to 1)turn the display off after 10 minutes 2)put the computer to sleep after 15 minutes and 3)require a password upon wakeup. Everything worked how it was supposed to....

I'm getting no sound after resuming from S1 sleep mode in Windows 8 and the only way to fix this is to either physically unplug the audio cable and plug it back in or restart the computer. I tried the audio troubleshooter and it could not find any problems and there is nothing to fix. I need to...

Am using win 8 RP.
When i wake up my lap from sleep mode my keyboard and mouse is in freeze state. am unable to do anything.But my display is working and also function key is working.
Before 2 days everything was fine. but now i donno whats the prob.

When I configured the Metro e-mail program on my laptop the system announced that it was increasing the security settings on my computer. (Thanks for nothing for not telling me what changes were being made). Afterwards, the laptop goes into sleep mode if unattended for more than 10 minutes. In...